Combined mop and wringer



March 8 1927;

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EDWARD J'UMONVILLE, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COMBINED M01? Application filed July 8,

The invention relates more particularly to mops which include a tubular shaped fabric that telescopes the mop handle and is wrung when twisted therearound.

The main object of the invention is to provide an arrangement to cause the wringing twist to begin at the lower end of the handle and to progress upwardly to the top of the mop-head, thereby facilitating exterior draining of the water that is wrung from the mop-fabric and eliminating need of internal drains such as the customary axial bore and the usual perforated connections therewith.

This and other objects, stated or obvious, are attained by the invention, a simple form of which, for the purpose of disclosure, I have herein described and illustrated, understanding however that I shall not be limited to the precise form shown.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal mid-section of the improved combined mop and wringer as indicated by the lines 1-1 of Figs. 2, 3, 4:, and 5.

Fig. 2 is a cross-section indicated by the line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section and downward view indicated by the line 3-3, Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross section and downward view indicated by the'line 4-4;, Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a crosssection and downward view indicated by the line 55, Fig. 1.

The combined mop and wringer of which this invention is an improvement is a well known type.

6 is the usual mop-fabric of tubular form adapted to telescope the handle 7 One end of the mop fabric is fastened to the handgrip 8 and the other end is secured to a ferrule 9 releasably connected to the end of the mop handle. The mop is wrung by grasping the holder 10 with one hand and the hand-grip aforesaid with the other, turning and twisting the mop-fabric around the handle.

When the hand-grip is slid from the position shown to the end of the handle, the tubular mop-fabric is converted into a swab which may be used as in any ordinary mop.

AND WRINGER.

1926. Serial No. 121,147.

The gist of the improvement herein resides in revoluble wringer tubes, one of which is shown at 11 as mounted at the end of the mop handle and another at 12. These are held in place over the lower part of the mop-handle, which is reduced in diameter as shown at 13, by the shoulder 14: and the flange 15 of the ferrule at the end of the handle.

It has been found in practice that ordinarily the wringing twist begins at the top of the mop-head and progresses downwardly to the bottom or lower end of the handle. Thus the wet fabric clings to the handle, resists and retards the wringing, leaving the lower part of the yarn mop-head soft, satu rated and requiring an internal drain to carry off the water from the upper mophead.

These objectionable conditions are avoided T by the aforesaid wringer tubes one of which is mounted revolubly at the end of the handle.

When the mop-head with the improved arrangement is twisted and wrung, the fabric clings to the wringer tubes while the handle, turning independently, transfers the twist to that part of the 1nop-head between the bottom of the lower tube and the end of the mop-handle. so

With the new arrangement, the soft yarn is compressed first at the bottom of the mophead. Thus compressed and hardened, the lower end of the mop-head is rendered nonabsorbent, and, as the twisting and compression progresses upwardly, the eliminated water freely drains externally over the compressed and non-absorbent part of the mop-head without need of internal drains heretofore deemed preferable or necessary.

Having disclosed a simple form of my invention and described its operation, I desire to protect by Letters Patent certain combinations of elements, and their eqnivalents, asset forth in claims below:

I claim: V

1. A combined mop and wringer including a handle, a. tube revolubly mounted thereon with one of its ends disposed adjacently to the end of said handle, a hand grip surrounding said handle and revolubly and slidably movable over said tube, means securing one end of a mop fabric to said hand-grip and means securing the other end of said fabric to the end of said handle.

2. A combined mop and Wringer includ- 4 ing a handle, a plurality of Wringer tubes revolubly mounted on said handle, the end of one of said tubes being disposed adjacently to the end of said handle, a hand-grip surrounding said handle revolubly and slidably movable over said tubes and a mop-fabric shaped to the form of a cylinder, telescoping said handle and tubes and having one end secured to the hand-grip aforesaid and the other end bound to the end of said handle. EDl VARD JUMONVILLE. 

